Preliminary Material

10.1163/ej.9789004184329.i-364.2

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Chapter Summary

This front matter section of this book titled Reading the Scottish Enlightenment contains the table of contents, a list of tables, a list of abbreviations and the acknowledgement. The book is divided in to two parts. Part I revolving around the means by which Scottish Enlightenment books were encountered in provincial Scotland and Part II assessing how contemporary readers responded to them. The book offers a fascinating new perspective on the fundamental importance of personal reading experiences to the social history of the Enlightenment.